Word: javier
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...orders," and the futility of the sanctions effort seemed to prove his point. Last July the council unanimously called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, which Iraq declared it would accept. But Iran stalled, refusing to clarify its intentions even when visited by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar during his unsuccessful peace mission to the gulf area two weeks...
...Sept. 17, the office of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced the full council is scheduled to meet today to discuss the war. He will also meet separately with the council's five permanent members...
United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar arrived in Tehran on the first leg of a difficult mission: to negotiate a cease-fire in the seven- year war between Iran and Iraq. The two sides had been expected to stop fighting at least until the Secretary-General's visit ends this week. But after only a three-day lull, Iraqi warplanes attacked Iranian cities and industrial sites in what Iraqi President Saddam Hussein called a "day of revenge" for Iranian missile attacks on Kuwaiti targets the week before. Iran, meanwhile, said it could not "take the risk" of observing...
...conflict threatens to fly out of control. That seemed to be the case as the week wore on: the so-called tanker war in the gulf was renewed with a vengeance, while simultaneously there was new activity on the diplomatic front. By week's end United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar was packing his bags for a trip to Iran and Iraq that could lead to a lasting cease-fire. Meanwhile, the gulf and the Strait of Hormuz were littered with blasted, battered, shell-pocked ships from a dozen nations...
...arbitrarily. No one knows for sure when the earth's population, which hit 4 billion in 1974, actually topped the 5 billion mark, though demographers suspect it happened in July. Zagreb was picked as the location by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities largely because U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar happened to be in that city when the chosen day rolled around. In a speech marking the occasion, Perez de Cuellar drew attention to the fact that 90% of this year's 120 million births will occur in countries where food, health services and education are inadequate...